Pop Art

by Klaus Honnef

Book Overview

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.

Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 383652337X
• ISBN13: 9783836523370
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.3"